Pykrete Bering Strait Bridge

Inspired by: <link>. Pykrete has long been the perfect solution. Mankind has just been very unsporting by not finding the appropriate problem. Mankind has, however, dreamed of bridging Asia and America at the tastefully narrow Bering Straits. Other locations offer prohibitively large, and frankly vulgar, distances.

Now, a traditional bridge would be exposed to ferocious weather, icebergs and the occasional curious bear. A Pykrete bridge will be different, no soaring elegant cable stayed anything, just REALLY massive floating blocks with a few steel tethers and links here and there. It should laugh in the face of bracing weather.... if Pykrete could laugh or weather had a face.

Making it should be easy: in winter, go north a bit, find a flat-ish looking bit of regular sea ice, and set about spraying your wood-water slurry over it in any pattern you like... I recommend the pattern that most looks like sections of a Pykrete bridge. You'll probably find that as you build up your structure, it will break itself off in an obliging manner, if not, some explosive encouragement may be used. Then, simply tow them into position.

After the bridge is in place, the people of Siberia will FINALLY have access to a large supply of snow, ice and rocks.